lol, I remember playing a political simulator called "Superpowers 2" and we decided to, as America, invade this country called "Oman" and it pissed off the entire world. So every world power diverted their military might, America bound.....EXCEPT for Australia.

In the game, Australia is like "Oh shit, guys, you have thousands of naval war-ships traveling across the Pacific towards you...what do!?" and by that time, we were being invaded from all over...The United Arab Emerates somehow got Texas, and the East Coast was just totally lost....so we diverted everything we had to flee America and occupy Australia, and they were like, "Um...we don't like that very much, could you please gtfo"

Then all the world powers that were too late to claim some mainland US decided to redirect to Australia to clean us out, and Australia was like "SHIT. SHIT. GET OUT GET OUT" and we were like "Ignore. Ignore. Ignore." and finally Australia initiated a ground war with the remnants of our US forces, while we're getting naval bombardments from Russia and Japan, aerial strikes....shit was over in a couple of in-game days.

.....Yeah, so my point is, Australia would probably be on our side more than anything. But they wouldn't put up with our shit, probably. Finders keepers! That shit's theirs to keep.

"I sail through a golden nexus. By tanks with armor that glisten. I watch and I play with creations, and what I'm not reading, I listen." <-

I was hoping we'd get over oil within my life time. Now I fear I will never live to see the possible Utopian future, where everything is electric, sourced from the earth and given back in to it at the same rate. When I go to a city, the air is as clean as at home.

You know in Mumbai, India, if you walk around in the city for a day it's the equivalent of 20 normal cigarettes? Industry is of course incredible but it is disgusting.

This is really upsetting. The more we rely on old ways of doing things (which we can, again, with short-sightedness), we will never progress.

At 1/24/13 01:55 PM, Otto wrote:
I was hoping we'd get over oil within my life time. Now I fear I will never live to see the possible Utopian future, where everything is electric, sourced from the earth and given back in to it at the same rate. When I go to a city, the air is as clean as at home.

Green energy would be nice. Unfortunately, the government keeps the price to high for it to be economically viable on a large scale.

If you want affordable green energy in your lifetime, vote libertarian next time.

At 1/24/13 01:55 PM, Otto wrote:
I was hoping we'd get over oil within my life time. Now I fear I will never live to see the possible Utopian future, where everything is electric, sourced from the earth and given back in to it at the same rate. When I go to a city, the air is as clean as at home.

Green energy would be nice. Unfortunately, the government keeps the price to high for it to be economically viable on a large scale.

If you want affordable green energy in your lifetime, vote libertarian next time.

The Libertarian Party in my country does have a few good ideas but have mostly incredibly flawed ideas that I don't agree with. I assume you mean the US party.